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| Physical restraint deaths in a 13-year national cohort of nursing home residents | | Author(s) | Emma Bellenger, Joseph Elias Ibrahim, Lyndal Bugeja, Briohny Kennedy |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 46, no 4, July 2017 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, July 2017 |
| Pages | pp 688-693 |
| Source | https://academic.oup.com/ageing |
| Keywords | Mobility ; Restriction ; Nursing homes ; Residents [care homes] ; Death ; At risk ; Australia. |
| Annotation | This paper aimed to investigate the nature and extent of physical restraint deaths reported to coroners in Australia over a 13-year period. The study comprised a retrospective cohort study of residents dwelling in accredited nursing homes in Australia whose deaths were reported to the coroners between 2000 and 2013 and attributed to physical restraint. Five deaths in nursing home residents due to physical restraint were reported over the 13 years. The median age of residents was 83 years; all residents had impaired mobility and had restraints applied for falls prevention. Neck compression and entrapment by the restraints was the mechanism of harm in all cases, resulting in restraint asphyxia and mechanical asphyxia, respectively. This national study confirms that the use of physical restraint does cause fatalities, although rare. Further research is still needed to identify which alternative strategies to restraint are most effective, and to examine the reporting system for physical restraint-related deaths. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-170728233 A |
| Classmark | C4: 5RC: LHB: KX: CW: CA3: 7YA |
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